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A Victorian painting
worth up to $335,000 was recently discovered at a
country house in Suffolk, 80 years after the art market
had lost track of it. "Cleobulos Instructing his
Daughter Cleobuline" by Lord Leighton hung high in a
lofty hall. The classical painting, measuring 2 ft by 3
ft 3 in, was one of three exhibited by the artist at the
Royal Academy 1871 summer exhibition.
Its location has been unknown since 1916.
The catalogue for the Leighton centenary exhibition at
The Royal Academy in Piccadilly, seen by 118,000 people
between February and April this year, described the
study as "untraced". The family wishes to remain
anonymous. They always believed the study to be a
Leighton, but had no idea of its potential auction
value. The discovery of this virtually unknown work is
particularly important as it is from a rich and
intriguing phase of Lord Leighton's career. |
